Adrien Silva celebrates with Andre Silva after scoring during the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup third place game against Mexico at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow. (Photo by YURI KADOBNOV/ AFP/Getty Images) (Image: YURI KADOBNOV/ AFP/Getty Images)

Danny Drinkwater has completed a club record £35million move to Chelsea, with Leicester City also set to complete the signing of Portugal international Adrien Silva as his replacement.

City were also able to bring in Austria international defender Aleksandar Dragovic on a season-long loan.

But the real deadline day drama came as the transfer window shut and City were trying to rush through the complex deal that would take Drinkwater to Stamford Bridge and see Silva arrive in a £22m move.

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City will be also pleased to get Dragovic, another long-term target, in as they had prioritised a centre-back in this window to add competition to captain Wes Morgan, Robert Huth and Harry Maguire.

They had failed with a £23m bid for West Brom’s Jonny Evans and had made an approach for Arsenal’s Calum Chambers, but had been told he was not for sale.

City had also rejected a £25m bid from Bournemouth for Demarai Gray as they tried to hang on to their star players.

Riyad Mahrez was also the subject of intense speculation he was set for a move as he was given permission from the Algeria Football Federation to leave their preparations for their World Cup Qualifier in Zambia to push through a move.

However, after flying back to Paris, it emerged that no club had made a bid for him and it had been a wasted trip and he remains a City player, despite stating he wanted to leave the club earlier in the summer.